Heidegger, however, takes Western metaphysics as having consistently misinterpreted nothingness as being oppositional and inferior to beyng, "degrading [it] to a mere denial of the determinateness and mediation of beings, as did Hegel and all metaphysicians before him .

It feels pain, and it is the privilege of the sentient nature to feel pain; it is a negation in its self [es ist eine Negation in seinem Selbst] and the negation is determined as a limitation in its feeling, just because the sentient creature has the feeling of its self, which is the totality that transcends this determinateness.

18) "Thus illusory being is the phenomenon of skepticism, and the Appearance of idealism, too, is such an immediacy, which is not a something or a thing, in general, not an indifferent being that would still be, apart from its determinateness and connexion with the subject .

As Jacob Klein has argued in Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra (1936), two of the distinctive conceptual features of algebra are the identification of an object with its means of representation and replacement of the real determinateness of an object with the possibility of making it determinate.

These determinations are the immediate being of the object, the determinateness through which the object is something for-another, and the essential intelligibility of the object that discloses itself in terms that are universal.

consciousness regularly contains the determinateness of the moment of knowledge; at the same time, this other is to consciousness not merely for it, but is also outside of this relationship, or exists in itself: the moment of truth.

Schindler therefore argues that "we can affirm the need for a foundation in the question of truth, without falling into the modern association of foundation with 'system,' because there is no essential contradiction between determinateness and openness" (p.

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